{"id":67219,"date":"2013-03-08T22:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=67219"},"modified":"2023-04-15T17:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T14:40:13","slug":"turkey-appoints-ambassador-to-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/03\/08\/turkey-appoints-ambassador-to-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey appoints ambassador to &#8216;Palestine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"underline\" itemprop=\"description\" style=\"margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 2em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; width: 635px; color: #787878; background-color: #ffffff;\">One-time close ally of Israel gives consul-general in Ramallah an upgrade<\/h2>\n<p>Turkey has appointed an ambassador to the \u2018State of Palestine\u2019, Palestinian Ma\u2019an News Agency reported Tuesday night. Akir Ozkan Torunlar, Turkey\u2019s current consul-general, is taking on the new honorific title as the nation\u2019s representative to Ramallah.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Palestinians enjoy non-member state status at the United Nations, a \u201cState of Palestine\u201d is not recognized by most countries.<\/p>\n<p>Tornular met with PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki in Ramallah, according to the report, who thanked the Turkish diplomat for his nation\u2019s support of last year\u2019s successful Palestinian bid for non-member state status at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Turkey enjoyed close diplomatic and business relations for years, but a gradual deterioration in ties was accelerated with the May 2010 Gaza flotilla incident, in which clashes between pro-Palestinian activists and IDF troops aboard the Mavi Marmara ship resulted in the deaths of nine activists, eight of them Turkish citizens, and injuries to several Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Ankara and Jerusalem have since remained sour, with Turkey demanding an apology, and compensation for the families of those killed, as prerequisites for the renewal of ties.<\/p>\n<p>Raphael Ahren contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey appoints ambassador to &#8216;Palestine&#8217; | The Times of Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-time close ally of Israel gives consul-general in Ramallah an upgrade Turkey has appointed an ambassador to the \u2018State of Palestine\u2019, Palestinian Ma\u2019an News Agency reported Tuesday night. Akir Ozkan Torunlar, Turkey\u2019s current consul-general, is taking on the new honorific title as the nation\u2019s representative to Ramallah. Though the Palestinians enjoy non-member state status at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestinianna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}